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In Sri Lanka E. Koushalyan, the LTTE's political wing leader for the eastern province, was killed in an ambush along with four other senior rebels and former Tamil legislator Chandra Nehru. Military officials said they suspected the attack was carried out by a breakaway faction of the Tamil Tigers led by the former number two in the leadership, known as Karuna.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan suspended the head of the UN oil-for-food program in Iraq and a senior official who dealt with contracts, following an independent investigation that accused them of misconduct.
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The freighter M/V Joekulfell sank in the North Atlantic off the Faeroe Islands, killing four crewmembers and leaving two others missing. Five were rescued by helicopter. The Samskip company owned the Isle of Man-flagged vessel. The vessel departed from the Latvian port of Liepaja and was headed to Iceland.
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Pres. Bush proposed a $2.57 trillion budget that would slash domestic programs including entitlements such as Medicaid, farm subsidies and veterans benefits. The budget would worsen federal deficits by $42 billion over the next five years.
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Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, the most notorious figure in the sex scandal that rocked the Boston Archdiocese, was convicted of repeatedly raping and fondling a boy at his church during the 1980s. Shanley was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison.
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IBM, Toshiba and Sony disclosed the architectural design of a new, jointly developed, multi-core processor called the Cell.
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Australia's central bank warned that interest rates, stable at 5.25 percent since December 2003
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Mai Hagiwara, Japanese singer
1993 –
David Dorfman, American actor
1993 –
Philip Wiegratz, German actor
1992 –
Maimi Yajima, Japanese singer
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Rachel Sibner, American actress
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Anna Abreu, Finnish singer
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Steven Stamkos, Canadian ice hockey player
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Louisa Lytton Feb 7 British actress
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Ai Kago, Japanese singer
1988 –
Matthew Stafford, American college football player
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February, 7
- Births
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2009,
Brian Naylor (broadcaster), Australian television presenter (b. 1931)
2008,
Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (b. 1913)
2006,
Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (b. 1914)
2005,
Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1934)
2003,
Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan author (b. 1921)
2003,
John Reading, Mayor of Oakland, California (b. 1917)
2002,
Jack Fairman, British racing driver (b. 1913)
2001,
Dale Evans, American actress and singer (b. 1912)
2001,
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (b. 1906)
2000,
Big Pun, Puerto Rican-American rapper (b. 1971)
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February, 7
- Deaths
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